Consider the interfaces up to

Sun Apr 27 23:53:01 EEST 2008 attila.lendvai@gmail.com * added simple-parse-error

under review. I think we can still continue adding new stuff, but once the cycle has run through the existing things, we need to make a quick run-through the additions. For clarity, please put any new stuff at the end of the export list in package.lisp.

I plan to run this on an approximately weekly cycle: unless there is controversy regarding the items under review, I'll post the next set of items next week, and so on.

Actual review items coming in a separate thread. I post what I consider a manageable set of things to review in a one go, working through package.lisp.

Then well talk about it -- both the thing itself (FOO is a good/bad/unnecessary thing to have / I don't understand FOO / FOO is nice, but doesn't belong in Alexandria because of X, etc.), the details of interface (FOO needs to use keyword arguments, FOO should be decomposed into multiple operators, FOO should signal an error when BAR happens, etc.), the docstring, the details of implementation, and the tests that go with it. ...in that approximate order. I don't think it is necessary to separate things into distinct phases unless there is controversy. In parallel with this, "obvious" fixes and improvements can be committed/pushed. Finally, we end up either with a blessed item, or a rejected item.

...and I maintain that I will consider Alexandria a roaring success if we manage to agree on ONCE-ONLY and WITH-GENSYMS/WITH-UNIQUE-NAMES and make 80% of projects needing them to use Alexandria. :)

Cheers,

-- Nikodemus